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From: Jolly Roger on 12 May 2010 14:59 In article <michelle-569E15.11431812052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > I discovered that I have two WMV plugins; Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin and > Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin. The first is 500K and is a "WebKit > plug-in"; the second is 242K and is a "Plug-in". Both have creation and > modification dates of Feb 19, 2010, the same version number (2.3.2.6), and > are in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins. > > Does anyone know why there are two of them? I would guess that one is for > WebKit based browsers, and the other is for all other browsers; however, > they're both listed in Safari's Installed Plug-ins window. I have those two as well. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: J Burns on 12 May 2010 15:36 Michelle Steiner wrote: > I discovered that I have two WMV plugins; Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin and > Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin. The first is 500K and is a "WebKit > plug-in"; the second is 242K and is a "Plug-in". Both have creation and > modification dates of Feb 19, 2010, the same version number (2.3.2.6), and > are in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins. > > Does anyone know why there are two of them? I would guess that one is for > WebKit based browsers, and the other is for all other browsers; however, > they're both listed in Safari's Installed Plug-ins window. > I think one is for QT Player. The Guide says the Installer will let you choose to install only the plug-in for the QT Player. That doesn't seem to be true. If you use the Uninstaller, it keeps telling you you're installing. There are some great kidders in the Flip4Mac Labeling Department.
From: David Stone on 12 May 2010 15:51 In article <hsf007$v3g$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Michelle Steiner wrote: > > I discovered that I have two WMV plugins; Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin and > > Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin. The first is 500K and is a "WebKit > > plug-in"; the second is 242K and is a "Plug-in". Both have creation and > > modification dates of Feb 19, 2010, the same version number (2.3.2.6), and > > are in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins. > > > > Does anyone know why there are two of them? I would guess that one is for > > WebKit based browsers, and the other is for all other browsers; however, > > they're both listed in Safari's Installed Plug-ins window. > > > I think one is for QT Player. Yes - just installed it myself, as it's a convenient way to view video files that otherwise won't play in QT Player or Windows Media Player for Mac OS X (version 9!).
From: David Empson on 12 May 2010 17:37
J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Michelle Steiner wrote: > > I discovered that I have two WMV plugins; Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.plugin and > > Flip4Mac WMV Plugin.webplugin. The first is 500K and is a "WebKit > > plug-in"; the second is 242K and is a "Plug-in". Both have creation and > > modification dates of Feb 19, 2010, the same version number (2.3.2.6), and > > are in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins. > > > > Does anyone know why there are two of them? I would guess that one is for > > WebKit based browsers, and the other is for all other browsers; however, > > they're both listed in Safari's Installed Plug-ins window. > > > I think one is for QT Player. The ".plugin" file is a QuickTime component, which allows any software that uses QuickTime (7) to play supported WMV files. (If you pay for higher ranked versions of Flip4Mac, the plugin also allows editing and conversion to other formats, or creation of WMV if you spend even more.) The ".webplugin" file is a web browser plugin which will be used directly by a web browser to play WMV on web sites. I expect that if you didn't have this installed, but did have the ".plugin", then the QuickTime webplugin would be used, and it would invoke the Flip4Mac component (".plugin"). This would mainly affect the user interface presented for playing WMV on a web site. There may be good reasons for doing both, e.g. the ..webplugin may allow streaming video while the .plugin doesn't, or something like that. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |